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"Scholars of all periods and centuries who are interested in Iberian languages and letters will benefit from the book, and libraries both around the States and abroad will want to acquire it." (Patricia Hart, World Literature Today).
The War of the Christs and Emilia's case is the English translation of the contemporary Catalan mystery La Guerra dels Cristos i el cas de l'Emília. The reader is guided through the labyrinth of Catalan traditions and customs by John McProud, the novel's main character, who is an American professor conducting anthropological research on the religious beliefs of rural Catalonia. McProud becomes swept up in the investigation of Emilia's murder as his research on the regional religious customs becomes entangled in the young girl's tragic death. The presentation of Catalan culture and heritage is masterfully interwined with Emilia's pathetic demise to entertain the reader on a curious journey along the byways of the region. Josep M. Solà-Solé has created an intriguing plot which combines the culture and history of Catalonia, one of the autonomous regions of contemporary Spain, along with the enigmatic death of Emilia, one of its local residents.
This volume contains seven of the eleven papers offered at the First Catalan Symposium organized by the Center for Catalan Studies at The Catholic University of America, October, 1990. Under the general topic of «The Present State of Catalan Studies in North America, » it contains papers by Patricia J. Boehne, Robert I. Burns, S.J., Peter Cocozzella, Roberto J. González Casanovas, Montserrat Piera, and Josep M. Solà-Solé, and an introduction by Ellen Ginsberg. This volume will be the first of a series, generated by annual symposia, and is dedicated to the memory of Father Pauli Bellet, O.S.B., who, from 1962 until his death in 1987, regularly taught a Catalan course in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at CUA.
"Held in October 1991, under the sponsorship of the Center for Catalan Studies at The Catholic University of America"--P. [4] of cover.
The topics treated in the Fourth Catalan Symposium - and assembled here together - range from general studies on modern Catalan poetry (Boehne), to more specific studies on a poet (Cocozzella on Agusti Bartra), a particular poem (Sola-Sole on El cant espiritual), a novel (Guasch on a novel by Antonia Vicens, and Gonzalez-Casanovas on a novel by Lluis Racionero) and modern Catalan folktales (Neugaard). The correspondence between the Catalan women writers Merce Rodoreda and Anna Muria is analyzed (Benejam Cobb), and the stylistic relationship between Pere Calders and Julio Cortazar (Barbera) is also discussed.
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This volume contains a collection of twelve papers that were read at the Third Catalan Symposium, held in October 1992, under the auspices of the Center for Catalan Studies at The Catholic University of America. Under the topic of «The Catalan Contexts of 1492, » contributions were made by the following American scholars: Eric J. Berryman, Patricia J. Boehne, Peter Cocozzella, Peter W. Dickson, Roberto J. González-Casanovas, Charles J. Merill, Geoffrey W. Ribbans, Irving M. Sorkin, and Josep M. Solà-Solé. Also participating were representatives from the Centre d'Estudis Colombins in Barcelona: Francesc Albardané, Jordi Bilbeny, Joan Castellar-Gassol, Jordi Gàlvez, and Nito Verdera. Th...